catastrophic backtracking
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Etymology
From catastrophic + backtracking.
Noun
catastrophic backtracking (uncountable)
- (regular expressions) An excessively large amount of backtracking that occurs with certain regular expressions, due to an exponentially large number of possible matching paths to check.
- Synonym: runaway backtracking
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